Summer TV Burn Off
I've never really tried to understand why TV shows get cancelled. I assume it's some mixture of audience vs costs vs demographics.
It seems like to me that this has been a particularly brutal year for shows. There are a ton of them that I watched that didn't make it ... Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Nine, Drive, Veronica Mars, Thank God You're Here, Twenty Good Years, Andy Barker P.I., Jericho, and Grease: You're The One That I Want.
Sometimes it wasn't so bad. At least Grease ran to conclusion (and I didn't really consider it a multi-season show). Veronica Mars and Studio 60 got tied up nicely with final episodes that realized they were final episodes. Jericho was given a reprieve for 7 new episodes to come in 2008 after a rare successful fan campaign. Twenty Good Years still has a number of un-aired episodes that to this point haven't been on TV, online, or DVD. I'm sure they'll eventually come out.
It's been weird with "The Nine" and "Drive". Both shows were series. Both were put on hiatus or cancelled. "Drive" repeatedly shows up on my DVR as being scheduled to air (I remember July 4 was one of the days that was going to be the burn off the last two episodes), but were never shown. "The Nine" was brought back on Wednesday nights but cancelled again after two episodes.
Thank goodness for the Internet. I watched the last two episodes of "Drive" this weekend on Fox's web site. It didn't provide closure, but it was nice to see Amy Acker at the end. It was also nice seeing Tim Minear (producer on "Angel" bring in other people from the Buffy-verse such as Lindsay Crouse (Professor Maggie Walsh). I also watched two more episodes of "The Nine". It also won't have closure, but there are still a couple of episodes to go according to this article. I've added it to my bookmarks to remind me to check back later.
It seems like to me that this has been a particularly brutal year for shows. There are a ton of them that I watched that didn't make it ... Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Nine, Drive, Veronica Mars, Thank God You're Here, Twenty Good Years, Andy Barker P.I., Jericho, and Grease: You're The One That I Want.
Sometimes it wasn't so bad. At least Grease ran to conclusion (and I didn't really consider it a multi-season show). Veronica Mars and Studio 60 got tied up nicely with final episodes that realized they were final episodes. Jericho was given a reprieve for 7 new episodes to come in 2008 after a rare successful fan campaign. Twenty Good Years still has a number of un-aired episodes that to this point haven't been on TV, online, or DVD. I'm sure they'll eventually come out.
It's been weird with "The Nine" and "Drive". Both shows were series. Both were put on hiatus or cancelled. "Drive" repeatedly shows up on my DVR as being scheduled to air (I remember July 4 was one of the days that was going to be the burn off the last two episodes), but were never shown. "The Nine" was brought back on Wednesday nights but cancelled again after two episodes.
Thank goodness for the Internet. I watched the last two episodes of "Drive" this weekend on Fox's web site. It didn't provide closure, but it was nice to see Amy Acker at the end. It was also nice seeing Tim Minear (producer on "Angel" bring in other people from the Buffy-verse such as Lindsay Crouse (Professor Maggie Walsh). I also watched two more episodes of "The Nine". It also won't have closure, but there are still a couple of episodes to go according to this article. I've added it to my bookmarks to remind me to check back later.
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